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24/10/2021

58th Hull Congress, 2021

 

The 58th Hull Congress, incorporated into the Hull 4NCL International Congress, was held from 22/1/2021 to 24/10/2021, at the Canham Turner Conference Centre, University of Hull, Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX.

 

There were three sections:

 

Participants

Winner

 

Open

59

Peter Wells & Steven Jones

League Table

Under 2000

52

Tim Spanton

League Table

Under 1700

52

Joseph Catto

League Table

total

163

 

 

* link to http://chess-results.com/

 

Click on the link in the right-hand column for the cross-table.

 

Local player John Cooper scored a win in the Open over GM Mark Hebden.

Click here to play through the game John Cooper 1-0 Mark Hebden.

 

Mate Ther of Harrogate scored a win over higher-rated Neil Bradbury.

Click here to play through the game Mate Ther 1-0 Neil Bradbury.

 

Another interesting game from John Cooper was his last-round loss to David Maycock.  It may be that both players were in time trouble, as Black seemed not to find the best move at the end.  Was not 36. … Bxe5 best and easily winning?  White seemed to be able to stay in the game with 37. Nf7+ at the end, but the game was chalked up as “0-1” without White making his 37th move.  Perhaps White lost on time and that detail was not recorded in the PGN file.

Click here to play through the game John Cooper 0-1 David Maycock.